District Court, N.D. Illinois June 12, 2007, 06 C 7014 (ILLINOIS RESTAURANT ASS'N v. City of Chicago)

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

MANNING, District Judge.

Foie gras, or “fatty liver,” is produced using the French practice of gavage, which involves feeding ducks or geese with the goal of fattening their livers. The practice dates back to at least Roman times, when Pliny the Elder wrote of the practice of feeding geese dried figs to enlarge their livers. Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Book VIII, Ch.